MOVIE: MoMA is currently running a retrospective on Joan Blondell, titled The Bombshell from Ninety-first Street. Trace the metamorphosis of the Manhattan-born actress from a young blonde bombshell to...a blonde bombshell in more mature roles! Tonight you can catch her in Blondie Johnson (1933) and Nightmare Alley (1947). 6 and 8pm // MoMA [11 West 53 St] EVENT: This sounds like the perfect balance of science and romance...and freezing, freezing cold. Learn about your place......

READING: Dave Eggers has delivered two (out of three) great novels, and tonight he reads from last one (which is just out on paperback), What is the What. He'll be at the Strand discussing the book and he'll also give a slideshow presentation from a recent trip he took to Sudan. More info here. Friday // 7pm // Strand Bookstore [828 Broadway] // Free EVENT: We love a good pillow fight, and tonight there's a......

Unnamed sources are telling the Daily News and The Post that a deal between the stagehands’ union and Broadway producers is within reach. The two sides have an agreement on the main sticking point, the dispute over the number of stagehands required for a show’s “load-in” and are currently negotiating salaries. As one source put it, "Everybody is confident we can finally get this done." There’s even optimism that some shows affected by the strike......

A Mighty Heart (directed by Michael Winterbottom) Being a journalist doesn't sound like a very dangerous profession, but for Daniel Pearl, his investigations while reporting on the situation in Karachi for the Wall Street Journal lead to his untimely end. Michael Winterbottom's most recent film starring Angelina Jolie offers a brief snapshot of Pearl, as played by Dan Futterman, and his stoic widow Mariane who used her own investigating skills to try to track down......

In advance of an official press conference at The Palace Theater today, The Times and The Post have reported that Spike Lee will be make his Broadway debut next spring with the 1951 play Stalag 17; a dramedy about camaraderie and betrayal between American airmen stuck in a German P.O.W camp (later made into a film by Billy Wilder.) Sources say that Clive Owen will once again be Spike’s inside man on the project. (Though......

A look at some noteworthy television this week: History Detectives (Monday, 8:00 p.m., WNET 13) The PBS show where a team of experts look into the history of the objects of ordinary people returns for another season. Shaq's Big Challenge (Tuesday, 9:00 p.m., WABC 7) Yet another fakeality show, this time with Shaquille O'Neal as the star of what can be best described as "The Biggest Looser, for Kids" or let's exploit some fat kids......

Wayne Coyne recently told EW that the Flaming Lips 2002 album "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" will be hitting Broadway in the future. Not too unusual given the bands often colorful and outrageous stage shows. Not only will we see the album come to life, but Aaron Sorkin will be teaming up with band to make it a reality. You know Sorkin as the creator of the West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset......

Even though the network media upfronts don't mean anything - except to advertisers - because schedules can be shuffled and shows killed between now and fall, Gothamist is still excited, because it's about hope (Tina Fey's new show to be good, Veronica Mars to be picked up) and new seasons of shows we love (The Office, My Name is Earl...and, heck, we can't help but watch Grey's Anatomy). Anyway, there are a lot of NYC-set......

Hmm, if there was a smackdown between Aaron Sorkin and Tina Fey, who would win? We're partial to saying Tina, because she's been writing and acting in Saturday Night Live - after having a baby! - AND working on her untitled NBC comedy pilot about a sketch comedy show, while Aaron Sorkin has been laying low, only working on his NBC drama pilot about a sketch comedy show. The New Yorker wonders if there's enough......

In the Saturday Night Live spoof of Fear Factor, Fear Factor Junior, the SNL crew made a point of making fun of NBC's tendency to blurb and blurb with ellipses, much to the delight of many. Now Variety looks at how NBC will "break through the promotional clutter by any ... means ... necessary." The pattern breaks down like this: Three words, each separated by three periods - easy! Examples include "Best ... Boardroom .........